Saturday, April 02, 2011

Layoffs | Final Q1 estimate: nearly 280 jobs cut

[Updated at 11:54 a.m. ET April 2.] By yesterday's close of the first quarter, Gannett Bloggers had counted an estimated 277 258 jobs cut through layoffs and attrition at 27 26  newspapers, plus the shuttered Tulsa, Okla., customer service center; Gannett Offset in Minneapolis, and national magazine staff at Phoenix. Gannett now has about 32,000 employees worldwide. (Spreadsheet has site-by-site figures.)

That compares with 255 jobs eliminated at 63 sites during the fourth quarter. (Spreadsheet.) None of these layoffs were ever disclosed by Corporate.

Meanwhile, Corporate has said there will be more cost-cutting in the months ahead. We know already that higher-paid employees are being furloughed at many sites during the second quarter, which we've now entered.

16 comments:

  1. Just 241, huh?

    Ya know, it might as well be a million when you are one of them. It ain't pretty out here, people.

    - One of them

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  2. The number is definitely higher when you take into consideration the "hidden" layoffs. Consolidations over the first quarter aren't showing up. It's probably about 100 people higher at least.

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  3. Salisbury lost 17 jobs when it started printing in Wilmington. I don't see those in the spreadsheet.

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  4. Thank you. I'll add that to the list.

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  5. I am really surprised there were no additional numbers for MNCO. Their production layoffs were scheduled for early March.
    Did that endeavor get delayed?
    Anyone?

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  6. I've added 19 jobs from the Tulsa customer service center. But I need more information about a comment elsewhere on this site about 100 jobs lost at Westchester, N.Y. I think those may be drivers' jobs that got outsourced, but I'm not certain.

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  7. Furloughed Fury4/02/2011 12:01 PM

    What I'd like to know is where is the Tea Party "rage" against waste when it comes to companies like Gannett furloughing employees and telling them to collect government unemployment (in states where that is permitted). Then the company turns around, takes the saved payroll money and gives it to people like Dubrow, Grace and the others who received multi million dollar bonuses. Aren't these executive bonuses being subsidized by tax payers? Or does that argument only work for social entitlements? Just food for thought. Not all corporate bailouts are paid directly.

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  8. Sad... why is it that every time I read a post like this, I think of what is probably Disgracia Martore's theme song, Eddie Kendricks' "Keep on Truckin.'"

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  9. Westchester should have 8 including 2 executives, 2 from finance 4 from ad design (GPC consolidation) plus drivers - not sure of number.

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  10. Anonymous said... westchester site as of 3-27-2011 90 drivers lose they jobs. and week ago and a bad move.

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  11. "None of these layoffs were ever disclosed by Corporate."

    This is stuff we need to know and wouldn't know if not for this blog. That's why I'm a subscriber. Thanks for your work, Jim.

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  12. Interesting reading but it seems well short of the 5,000 number that has been discussed over the last four months. Is that to mean the major layoff is a-coming? Just askin? How many jobs have been added in the last four months? Is that why the number is so low, because the additions are nearly as much as the reductions?

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  13. 12:01 PM – It’s likely most American’s don’t even know about companies like Gannett who’ve integrated unemployment payouts into their severance packages to save money. To fix it, start “crowd-sourcing” it within the comments sections of the many stories Gannett newspapers write about govt spending....especially at papers that have practiced it the most.

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  14. The Newark OH paper darkened one (unfilled) reporter position

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  15. Perhaps some laid off Gannett employee could inform their congressman about the company's practice of using unemployment benefits to subsidize its severance packages. Nothing like jerking people around who have just been fired. This company's cruelty and depravity has no end.

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  16. WKYC in Cleveland is laying off weekend weatherman A.J. Colby and weekend newscaster Jeff Maynor due to budget cuts. Their last day on the air is May 29, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.

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